Intro 

Charity Clark was first sworn in as Vermont Attorney General on January 5, 2023. She is the first woman elected Vermont Attorney General. 

Early Life and Education 

AG Clark grew up in southern Vermont and is the proud daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter of Vermont small grocers. She grew up stocking shelves and working the cash register at her family’s store, gaining first-hand knowledge of the challenges small businesses owners face. 

She attended the University of Vermont and was a policy analyst in the Vermont Governor’s Office before attending Boston College Law School. 

Career Highlights 

In 2005, AG Clark’s legal career began as an associate at Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington and later at Orrick in New York City. Charity was hired as an Assistant Attorney General in the Public Protection Division by former Attorney General Bill Sorrell in 2014. She served as Chief of Staff under Attorney General T.J. Donovan from 2018 to 2022. 

Attorney General Accomplishments 

During her time as Attorney General, Clark has sued the FDA to make access to medication abortion more accessible in Vermont, negotiated for the return of security deposits for participants of Vermont’s “motel program” totaling $310,000 for formerly houseless Vermonters, and sued a chemical company for contaminating Vermont’s water resources and schools with Polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBs). 

Personal Life 

AG Clark is a dedicated community volunteer, a Justice of the Peace, and chair of the board of her town library. Drawing on her own experience as a mother, in 2018, Charity helped found the Junior League of Champlain Valley’s Diaper Bank, which has distributed over a million diapers statewide to families in need.   

In 2021, she completed hiking the 272-mile Long Trail and now she is skiing her way through the Catamount Trail.